Nursing student stabbed at Jurong West

[ShangTsung]

Updated: 12/20/2013 21:00 | By Channel NewsAsia

Nursing student stabbed at Jurong West

SINGAPORE: A 20-year-old woman was stabbed by an assailant on Friday morning at Jurong West Street 42.

Pavithra Gunashekaran, a nursing student at Nanyang Polytechnic, was brought to the National University Hospital (NUH) with injuries to her arms and neck.

The victim was attacked as she stepped out of a lift at Block 415.

She is believed to have been slashed several times by a 30-year-old cleaner.

Police responded to a call for help at around 8.40am and the assailant was arrested.

According to the victim's mother, Ms Gunashekaran met the suspect during her attachment at a hospital.

He was said to have asked for her hand in marriage the night before the stabbing, but left after the police spoke to him.

The next morning, the victim was attacked on her way to school.

Mrs Guna, the victim’s mother, said at the time of the incident, she thought she heard her daughter screaming.

“So I told my husband, I think my daughter is screaming, can we go (downstairs)? My husband saw it (the incident), pulled (the assailant’s) shirt, and asked him, what are you doing to my daughter? There was (a lot of) blood. Then the ambulance and policemen came and helped us.” - CNA/nd

 

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Nursing student stabbed and slashed in Jurong West

AsiaOne
Friday, Dec 20, 2013

*UPDATE : Police said that the suspect who was arrested will face court on December 21. He faces charges for voluntarily causing grievous hurt with a dangerous weapon.

SINGAPORE - A nursing student in her 20s was stabbed at a block of flats in Jurong West on Friday morning.

Chinese evening daily, Lianhe Wanbao, reported on its website that the woman was sent to the National University Hospital with injuries to her arms, neck and abdomen.

Police confirmed that they received a call for assistance at 8:40am on Friday. Upon arriving, they found the injured woman at Block 415, Jurong West Street 42.

A man in his 30s has been arrested in relation to the case.

Lianhe Wanbao reported the victim was on her way to school with her father and had just stepped out of the lift when they encountered the assailant.

An eye-witness told the Chinese daily that the unknown man stabbed her repeatedly. The witness said the victim was crying as she bled from her neck.

The victim's father tried to stop the attacker. He pulled off the man's top during a tussle. But the assailant escaped, leaving his knife behind.

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Rejected marriage proposal turns bloody

December 21, 2013 - 12:48am

By: Shaffiq Alkhatib Jasmine Lim

TNP PHOTO: Mohd Ishak

A stalker brutally slashed and stabbed student nurse Pavithra Gunashekharan, the day after she turned down his marriage proposal.

The man, who was armed with a kitchen knife, waited near Block 415, Jurong West Street 42 for her.

After the Nanyang Polytechnic nursing student fell, he sat on her and viciously cut her repeatedly as she screamed for help.

Her father rushed to her rescue and had to pull the Indian national off his daughter. But by then, Miss Pavithra was left with multiple deep wounds on her neck and body.

Read the full report in The New Paper on Saturday (Dec 21).

 

[winnipegjets]

Are we having a PAP-sponsored CrimeFest? It started with the riot, then headless body, now stabbing ....

 

[hokkien]

Are we having a PAP-sponsored CrimeFest? It started with the riot, then headless body, now stabbing ....

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[lianbeng]

Bro more to come

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[hokkien]

lianbeng replies hokkien: bro, why like that? kana rejected liao must kill people meh?

Bro,if you got daughter must be careful